Microtropis ramiflora Wight, Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient. 3: t. 977 1845. (Syn: Paracelastrus ramiflorus (Wight) F.N.Williams);
Evergreen trees, to 25 m high; bark greenish-yellow, smooth with bluish-green blotches, blaze yellow turning yellowish-brown; branchlets black purple, rough. Leaves simple, opposite, decussate, estipulate; petiole 3-10 mm long, stout, glabrous; lamina 5-13 x 2.5-6.5 cm, elliptic, elliptic-ovate or obovate, base round or subcordate, apex rounded or slightly emarginate, margin revolute, cucullate, coriaceous, glabrous, slightly rugose above; lateral nerves 5-7 pairs, pinnate, prominent, intercostae reticulate, prominent. Flowers bisexual, yellowish, sessile, 6-10 in axillary condensed clusters; sepals 5, ovate to suborbicular, unequal, margin laciniate, imbricate; petals 5, fleshy, joined at the base with disc; disc annular; stamens 5, inserted on the disc; filaments subulate, basally connate; ovary conical, seated on the disc, 2-3-celled, ovules 2 in each cell; style short, stigma 2-3 lobed. Fruit a capsule, 2 x 0.8 cm, ellipsoid, woody, apiculate, grey to rusty, 2-valved, surrounded at the base by persistent calyx; seed one, 4 x 6 mm, oblong, stipitate, erect. Flowering and fruiting: March-June Shola forests Peninsular India and Sri Lanka (from India Biodiversity Portal on
Nilgiris :: Celastraceae tree for identification :: 291213MK003 : Attachments (7). 3 posts by 2 authors. Please help me in identifying this small tree for identification. Can this be Microtropis ramiflora of Celastraceae? Height: 5-7 m Leaf: leathery; glabrous, 12 cm long Fruit: hard, 2.5 cm long; aril red on mature Date: 12 Dec 2013 Place: Doddabetta RF, Nilgiris, TN Alt.: 2450 m asl I too think it is Microtropis ramiflora
Shola Species pls idenitify ID Niju2803201501 : 6 posts by 3 authors. Attachments (2) From Sispara, Silent valley NP, Kerala This is Microtropis sp. Celasteraceae. may we know the size of the fruits and the leaves. fruits mostly is what I am interested in Thanks, to ... Microtropis latifolia Wt. ex Lawson Thanks, ..., for the initial Id. I think matches with images at Microtropis ramiflora Wight |
# Species- Seed plants (families) > A---L (families & genera) > C > Celastraceae > Microtropis >
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